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The state’s Psychiatric Security Review Board granted Smith conditional release from the hospital on Friday after hearing from a psychiatrist, who said Smith’s schizophrenia and alcohol and drug disorders were in full remission as a result of medication and other treatment.

Addiction sucks, and compounding it with schizophrenia... yeah, I could see how this would happen. It's tragic and awful that it did, and gives us all the knee-jerk "what the fuck why would they release that psycho" reaction, I get all that, but as long as they remain on their prescribed medications and sober from other mind-altering substances, they should have the opportunity to be part of society again. When your brain chemistry is that fucked up, you are not in the drivers seat.

now on the other hand, if in the future he decides to stop taking his meds like a fucking dumbass, yeah, put him in a padded room and keep him there since that's a conscious decision to live in Hannibal Lecter Land.